Pressure on Kuwait to move event to Trump hotel a paradigm impeachable offense

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/pressure-on-kuwait-to-move-event-to-trump-hotel-a-paradigm-impeachable-offense-af4a9d44f71e#.uvglvfyxl

Judd Legum
Editor-In-Chief, ThinkProgress
4 hrs ago
Pressure on Kuwait to move event to Trump hotel a ‘paradigm impeachable offense’
“A grave abuse of executive power.”


On Monday, ThinkProgress reported that, after receiving pressure from the Trump organization, the Embassy of Kuwait moved a major event to the Trump International Hotel.

Kuwait’s National Day celebration, scheduled to take place at the Four Seasons prior to the election, will now take place at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a source direct with knowledge of the arrangements told ThinkProgress.

Several legal experts say that the allegations would constitute a violation of the Constitution. Larry Tribe, a Harvard Law Professor and one of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars, called the scenario a “paradigm impeachable offense.”

If the facts are as alleged, this kind of scenario fits the paradigm impeachable offense even better than scenarios in which Trump is a wholly passive recipient of an unconstitutional foreign Emolument. Whatever one might think of purely passive acceptance of a forbidden payment, there can be no doubt that actively soliciting a forbidden Emolument is a grave abuse of executive power and thus a “high crime and misdemeanor.”

The term “emolument” refers to a payment to a president by a foreign power. Emoluments are expressly prohibited by Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution.

Norm Eisen, former Chief Ethics Counsel for Barack Obama, agreed with Tribe’s assessment. He described the allegations as “shocking” and potentially civilly and criminally actionable.


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https://thinkprogress.org/pressure-on-kuwait-to-move-event-to-trump-hotel-a-paradigm-impeachable-offense-af4a9d44f71e#.uvglvfyxl

[msongs]

1. seems like trump has to do something while president for impeachment to apply nt

[babylonsister]

2. Seems to me someone needs to find their

outrage, dig up a copy of the Constitution, and hold him accountable.

[katsy]

3. Not 1 treasonous hypocritical gop house/senate

scum will vote to impeach. Not one.

They r above the law now. Just watch.

[Thav]

4. But Trump is rich

So it's Ok.

I wonder who will sing the swan song for the US.

[tanyev]

13. Jackie Evancho, apparently, unless she cancels before the inauguration.

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[DemoTex]

16. Yep. Gingrich told us.

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Does anyone else think that Trump wants to get impeached?

[onenote]

7. I'm sure there are people here who think that

just as there were people here who thought he didn't really want the nomination and that he really didn't want to be elected and that he would drop out (a) during the primaries; (b) before the convention; (c) during the convention; (d) after the convention but before election day.

They were wrong. And so are those who think he wants to get impeached.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. He acts like a man who doesn't give a shit.

Maybe he has never faced the consequences of his reckless behavior, and will make a mockery of the presidency because he's not going to start now?

[onenote]

9. You're right that he doesn't give a shit

And he's confident that he can get away with anything. He's not someone who wants to get caught. He wants to get caught and then beat the rap.

[onenote]

10. The problem with definitive declarations about violations of the emoluments clause

is that the clause has never been interpreted or applied by the Supreme Court and thus it really isn't possible to say what is or isn't a "paradigm" violation (although accepting the title of Sir Donald from the King of Whatever would probably fit the definition of a paradigm violation).

[elmac]

11. Haven't they heard?

You can't impeach a fascist dictator, especially with the spineless congress we have.

[leftieNanner]

12. It just doesn't matter what Trump does

He will NEVER be impeached. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are terrified of the Trump voters and will never go against them. When the lease for his Washington hotel is brought up - he will just tell them that he won't sell the property and they will have no choice but to allow it or lose their jobs. Same with everything else he gets his grubby fingers on. We are stuck with him for four years. Go read Rude Pundit's post today about possibly turning three Republican Senators to caucus with the Ds. Interesting read.

[Oneironaut]

14. Please, Santa - bring us Democrats with a spine

No more (droopy dog voice) "Ohhhh. I guess there's nothing we can do about it anyways. I guess we'll just be quiet about it until something worse happens." President Cheney was allowed to practically destroy this nation because of spinelessness, imo.

Please more people like Warren. We need you. Call Trump out on his bs and bring him to court if he breaks the law.

[JudyM]

22. Cheney going at it again, lobbying to get Tillerson approved.

[tenorly]

15. He could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and GOP congresscritters still wouldn't impeach.

Unless, perhaps, the victim was one of their mistresses/toy boys.

[ffr]

17. Begs, pleads, and demands Impeachment.

Will republicans deny him to remain in power?

[rolypolychloe]

18. If the President commits a crime and is convicted in the court

would he not still go to jail, even if he is not impeached. I vaguely remember some state supreme court justice being convicted of a crime and going to jail, but he refused to resign. He wanted to continue collecting his pay. The state then had to go through the whole process of impeachment to get him off the payroll. Would this not still apply to the President? A Republican Congress isn't willingly going to impeach Trump, but if he commits a crime and is convicted and goes to jail, what choice would they then have other than to impeach him? The courts are a lot more non-partisan than the congress, if not perfectly so. In theory, even the President is not above the law, and it is the courts that make that so, not Congress.

[ToxMarz]

19. Someone or some country is going to set him up guaranteed

He and his clan are just too greedy. Any foreign power that wants to take him down just has to pay him a compliment, make a deal, pay his family off, and BAM! How can they even resist the temptation?

[groundloop]

20. Trump is still a private citizen, I don't believe these laws apply to him yet

Of course these very same laws probably won't apply to him even after he's coronated, just because.

[Bettie]

21. I'm pretty sure that impeachment

is off the table.

As are investigations into ethical issues with regard to the groper-in-chief.